chadbag

I just need a replacement wall switch that can control the circuit the switch controls.   Without needing a hub.  I have a few of the Leviton ones and they are nit reliable (even with latest firmware)

I use a PPC version of AccountEdge in a VM.   I moved most of my businesses to something else ages ago but a side business I have is not worth the cost or time so I just run it in the old AccountEdge as long as I can.  (I don't need tax tables or anything for what I am doing -- have no employees and can track sales tax manually).

Priority Software is not the original developer.  I don't know when they took it over but it has had at least one if not multiple former owners.

I suspect that this is a Carbon app and the final vestiges of Carbon went away in Catalina:  

en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Carbon_(API)Carbon (API) - Wikipedia

I had a booth at Macworld Tokyo in Feb 2000.  Apple was still doing their OS X roadshow and the atmosphere at the show was very electric.  I don’t remember much about IE on OS X in the early days except it was what we used and it sort of “matched” the look that OS X was coming out with.  Not in an Apple-native way but in a 3rd party best effort way, which back then was appreciated and a good effort.  OS X was new and exciting — especially for those of us who had been using OpenStep and the Rhapsody. The Mac under OS X was not yet the refined slick product it later became as people got OS X experience under their belts.  The Omni Group had the best set of apps (in terms of look and feel) as they had come from OpenStep and were made with the API of the future — Cocoa.    Mac IE was made with Carbon and was the attempt at using the modern UI on the older Mac Toolbox API. 

ChristianPaulsen said:

Maybe it’s time to rethink the idea of patents. Seems they are causing more bad than good. Is there not any proposals out there for how change this system?

No.  If this were indeed some unique new invention it would be exactly why we have patents.  To protect the people who make actual new inventions from being ripped off by big pockets. 

foljs said:

chadbag said:

I am surprised that the patent for the hidden email bit was granted.  Such technology (or similar) can basically be had through simple email forwarding setups, which have been around forever.  

I have my private Email, [email protected] and want to keep it hidden.   So I subscribe to an email service that sells forwarding addresses and buy [email protected] and have it forwarded to my private email.  I set my email client to have the from set to the forwarded address and voila.  

Tech for that has been around for a long time. 

The different is the fit-for-purpose, direct implementation. That you could achieve it manually by using a forwarding website is not the same.

Patents cover methodologies (techniques), not purposes.  The technology has been out there since forever.  And there use of it is obvious and non-unique based on the fact that there are lots of websites out there selling similar services using email forwarding